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This movie will make you want to move with the music, just as salsa always does.

Simple story about a boy who was excellent and passionate about salsa dancing but was teased and assaulted and gave it all up. Growing up he (Frost) became a big boy (obese man really) and falls for his new boss (Jones.) He wants to go back to salsa dance to her heart but his obvious sex-thought-protruding-out-of-his-head (more…)

Rating: Excellent Where: SOMA, San Francisco, CA (140 Montgomery Street between Mission Street and Howard Street, part of the renovated AT & T Building) Review: From the same crew of Bar Agricole, here comes another excellent Trou Normand. Their cocktails are rich with a good refreshing sense. You could still order your typical Old Fashioned, but go with their signature drinks from Bar Agricole, or much better yet, get the (more…)

Terminator and producer Bill Block decided to show up and introduced the movie. He and his famous line, “I’d be back!” were present and cheered up the crowd while most people were too busy taping and taking pictures of him. He looked energized with a face looking shiny.

The movie plot was a bit silly about a bunch of DEA agents who were party animals, drug addicts, and alcoholics as part of their stint so they can infiltrate the drug lords and other gangster groups, mainly from Mexico. The plot sounds familiar with the exception (more…)

Very Anderson movie with the colorful, imaginative dream like stop-motion scenes about Gustave’s life as the concierge of the Budapest Hotel and all the people surrounding and relating to him. His life with Madame D., while close, as many of his “concierge” services to many of his other clients, men and women, was even more personal.

Many compared this with The Hunger Games for its women empowering style and most men (except 1 good guy and 1 villain) were weak in character / strength, the scifi fantasy into the future, the segregation of human kinds based on new criteria. Shailene Woodley even looks similar to Jennifer Lawrence with a round, fresh face.